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A Change in Worlds explores the environmental, economic, and political history of the Sino-Tibetan Songpan region of northern Sichuan from the late imperial Qing Dynasty to the early 21st century. A historically Tibetan region on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plate... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:40 | Studies in neuroscience demonstrate that a focus on mindfulness meditation and contemplative spiritual practice has the capacity to increase our non-anxious awareness and significantly lower our stress. Not only is this finding of immediate importance for pastoral co... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:40 | In this innovative study, Jesse challenges the prevailing view of Blake as an antinomian and describes him as a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She arrives at this conclusion by contextualizing Blake's work... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:40 | Resilience in South Sudanese Women describes the historical injustices in Southern Sudan that led to the outbreak of civil wars. These injustices included socio-economic and political marginalization that denied the women basic needs. It gives firsthand life experien... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:41 | Political communities are constituted through the representation of their own origin. The Iroquois and the Athenians is a philosophical exploration of the material traces left by that constitutional act in the political practices of the classical Iroquois and Athenia... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:41 | Twenty years ago Ukraine gained its independence and started on a path towards a free market economy and democratic governance. After four successive presidents and the Orange Revolution, the question of exactly which national model Ukraine should embrace remains an ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:42 | This lively and invigorating book explores the complex ways that globalization has profoundly affected the once-static nationally defined boundaries of citizenship. From Cairo to Beijing, campaigns for civil rights and democracy around the world are intensifying and ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:42 | Bioethics asks fundamental questions. 'Who lives? Who dies? Who decides?' These questions are relevant to us all. Too often, the general public's sole encounter with these weighty questions is through sound bites fed to us by the media-where complex, difficult matter... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:42 | Newsrooms_and campus newsrooms are no exception_are chaotic, fast-paced, and lively. That's why we love them. But reporting news is an important business, and everyone involved in that business needs some guidance and structure. Covering Your Campus provides the advi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:43 | Liberal education has long been a fascination for scholars in a variety of disciplines and is closely associated with the idea of the educated person. Seen at one time as a matter for colleges and universities, over the years it has become central to the debate surro... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:43 | Buhite offers a trenchant evaluation of Douglas MacArthurs career in east Asia and his role in some of the most important military and diplomatic issues of the twentieth century. Concise and highly readable, this biography considers diplomatic fact in light of psycho... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:43 | A concise introduction to the evolution of communication media, past, present, and future, this book is unique in that it treats both mass media_radio, television, and print_and interpersonal media_telephony, computer communication, and new technologies. The first pa... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:43 | A new collection on women in American television in the 90s uncovers a cultural obsession with tough yet sexy heroines in mythical pasts, the 'girl power' present, and utopic futures. Xena, Buffy, Sabrina, and a host of other characters have become household words, a... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:43 | The book concludes that Aristotle's views yield a compelling argument for the claim that public supervision of education is a necessary condition for a just society. It examines the implications and limitations of that argument, including particularly the form and su... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:43 | In Ethics of the Word beloved priest and author James F. Keenan, S.J., discusses the power of the Word in the Catholic Church. In the ongoing wake of the priest abuse scandals, Father Keenan argues that we need new ways to build trust and open communication in the Ch... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:44 | The Best Tool of the Millennium The seeds of Rybczynski's elegant and illuminating new book were sown by The New York Times, whose editors asked him to write an essay identifying "e;the best tool of the millennium."e; An award-winning author who once built a ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:44 | It's not more money, bigger offices, better benefits, or flextime. Recent surveys reveal that the number one reason employees quit their jobs is that they don't feel valued on a human level. Growing employment opportunities and the lure of Internet companies have bro... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:45 | Edward is nearly four years old when he begins his slow, painful withdrawal from the world. For those who love him -- his father, Jack, and mother, Rachel, pregnant with their third child -- the transformation of their happy, intelligent firstborn into a sleepless, f... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:45 | Descended from the greatest horses of the American West, the wild horses living on the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico -- one of the most dangerous places on Earth -- were a national treasure and a living legend. Big, strong, beautiful, and fierce, their ance... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:49 | The first English translation of 3 major texts in medieval Sufi ethics. |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:49 | One of America's most acclaimed suspense writers now serves up a bracingly original nail-biter that takes us deep into the rugged terrain of the Utah mountains. Sherry Carrigan O'Toole can't seem to apply the prescriptions she offers in her bestselling self-help book... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:49 | He'd be a terrible spy. But he might make a good husband. Call him Teague. Finn Teague. A jack-of-all-trades, he's been everything from ski instructor to cook, but he's always craved a job that wouldn't bore the living daylights out of him. He longs to be a shaken-no... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:49 | Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings could at last take control of their lives and tame the uncontrolled forces of the social and natural worlds. And yet, a... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:49 | The global financial crisis has challenged many of our most authoritative economic ideologies and policies. After thirty years of reshaping the world to conform to the market, governments and societies are now calling for a retreat to a yet undefined new economic ord... Полное описание |
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